SLA 2009

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Review Publications Before You Make Purchasing Decisions The EBSCO Sample Issue & Book Program (SIBP) is a great way to check out new and different titles to help you decide which journals and books will benefit your researchers the most. Here’s a sneak preview of the publications that are on display at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at EBSCO’s Booth #509.

Sustainability Reference Center™ is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability—forming the largest dedicated resource available covering this emerging topic. The database includes complete coverage of more than 800 publications and offers tens of thousands of additional sustainability-focused articles, benchmarks and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications. Much of the content is available in a searchable PDF format, making it simple for corporate users to take advantage of this rich resource. Designed for corporate sustainability experts and information professionals, Sustainability Reference Center contains the greatest concentration of sustainability-related content available today.

Academic Search™ R & D — Information for All Areas of Research & Development — Basic Research, Applied Research and Experimental Development Now Available via EBSCO host ®

EBSCO Publishing has released the largest database of journals, magazines, books and other content addressing the needs of the corporate research & development community. Built specifically for corporate access, Academic Search™ R&D ( ASR&D ) is the world’s most comprehensive source for scientific, technical and medical information from the world’s foremost publishers. This new resource will serve as the premier full-text content solution encompassing basic research, applied research and experimental development.

Corporations subscribing to major subject indices via EBSCO host ® such as AGRICOLA , CAB Abstracts ®, GeoRef , Inspec ® and Petroleum Abstracts TULSA® Database are now able to expand their access to scientific, technical and medical information. With ASR&D users can link directly from the citation-only records to the corresponding full text in ASR&D allowing corporate users to access the full-text version of highly-sought-after articles in these subject areas. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to research and development.

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is making it easier for corporate learning and training professionals to offer essential formal and informal learning resources to their employees. EBSCO’s Learning Centers ™ and Business Basics ™ offer broad coverage of current thinking on topics regarded as core competencies as well as information for new managers and managers now covering new areas within a corporation.

EBSCO’s 10 Learning Centers offer the first resources leveraging periodical content refined to support specific learning and training needs. Each of the Learning Centers provides ideal current learning content for corporate training and development applications. These comprehensive databases support the ongoing career development needs of management and other professionals through access to relevant articles from renowned magazines and journals.

Business Basics provides more than 500 concise overviews of key business terms, concepts and practices that modern managers encounter. The overviews average 3,000 words and are designed to help managers develop an understanding of a given topic while also enabling readers to apply the concepts to their jobs. The articles are organized in sections to assist users in quickly locating the most relevant parts of each article.

EBSCO’s Learning Centers and Business Basics join Business Book Summaries ™ (executive summaries of top business books) to round out the suite of products EBSCO offers to corporate learning departments. Content from the Learning Centers and Business Book Summaries may be easily mapped to applicable competencies and utilized in both formal and informal learning environments. Departmental subject matter experts can use the full-text content from all these EBSCO resources to create training guides for staff at all levels.

The last year of the swinging ‘60s was famous for a number of technological advancements including the launch of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Inspec® database. 1969 was also famous for Neil Armstrong taking the first steps on the moon, the launch of the Mariner 6 Mars probe, the start of regular color television broadcasts in the UK and the invention of the Unix computer operating system.

Inspec , IET’s bibliographic database of abstracts to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature, celebrates its ruby anniversary this year, although the online archives date back to 1898. Inspec provides comprehensive coverage of traditional and cutting-edge publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering.

Inspec now adds nearly 700,000 records each year to the database, all of which have a range of specialized subject indexing created by scientific subject experts to enhance retrieval. A further Inspec milestone will be reached this fall as the 11 millionth record will be added.